Where to find HTTP methods examples? [closed]

HTTP defines eight methods (sometimes referred to as "verbs")

Can you help me find examples for each one so I can test and understand them better?

回答1:

First you should take a look into the HTTP 1.1 specification, especially the section method definitions.

OPTIONS Get information about how the server allows to communicate with.

Request:

OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: …
Allow: OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE
Content-Length: 0

GET Retrieve a resource.

Request:

GET /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: …
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 12345
 
<!DOCTYPE …

HEAD Like GET, but returns just the HTTP header.

Request:

HEAD /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: …
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 12345

POST Create a new resource.

Request:

POST /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
 
action=addentry&subject=Hello,%20World

Response:

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Date: …
Content-Length: 0
Location: http://example.com/foo/bar

PUT Send data to the server.
DELETE Delete an existing resource.

TRACE Return the request headers sent by the client.

Request:

TRACE /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: …
Content-Length: 17
 
Host: example.com

I don’t know exactly if these examples are correct. Feel free to correct them.

回答2:

You can experiment with the different HTTP methods using the cURL command line tool. For example:

curl --head http://www.google.co.uk

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:33:24 GMT
Expires: -1
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=a2a414b9a84c8ffd:TM=1240155204:LM=1240155204:S=16kZnqzeSxIJT3jv; expires=Tue, 19-Apr-2011 15:33:24 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.co.uk
Server: gws
Transfer-Encoding: chunked